Teddy Reed
Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
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Teddy Reed is a software engineer with 14 years of experience building secure, reliable systems across cloud, infrastructure, and embedded domains, currently focused on hardening Google Cloud and its products. He blends hands-on development with security engineering and product leadership gained at Lacework and Facebook, where he led application and infrastructure security teams and shipped verified-boot and intrusion-detection capabilities. Teddy is an active open-source contributor with notable work on OpenBMC (verified boot for AST2400) and UEFI/firmware parsing, bridging low-level firmware, OS, and trusted computing topics. He repeatedly tackles end-to-end problems—from agentless workload scanning and attested update mechanisms to large-scale system assessments and emulation—favoring privacy-preserving, scalable solutions. Based in New York, he pairs an MS in Computer Science with national-lab R&D experience, and brings a research-minded curiosity that often surfaces in tooling for firmware analysis and secure boot workflows.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology
Github Skills (24)
bootloader10
c-language10
package-management10
python10
firmware10
yocto10
homebrew10
code-analysis10
u-boot10
sys10
embedded10
software-packaging10
openbmc10
cprogramming-language10
spi9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
theopolis/uefi-firmware-parser
Jan 2014 - Jan 2023
Parse BIOS/Intel ME/UEFI firmware related structures: Volumes, FileSystems, Files, etc
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 14 reviews, 162 commits in 9 years
Contributions summary:Teddy primarily contributed to parsing and processing UEFI firmware files, focusing on analyzing and extracting data from various firmware structures such as Firmware Volumes, Files, and Sections. Their work involved implementing and integrating compression and decompression algorithms, including support for LZMA and Tiano/EFI compression. The contributions extended to building tools for file injection and generation of firmware descriptors, which is key for this repository's goal. The user also added support for different types of Dell firmware and code module parsing from Intel ME.
biosfilesystemfirmwareuefi
facebook/openbmc
Apr 2016 - Apr 2019
OpenBMC is an open software framework to build a complete Linux image for a Board Management Controller (BMC).
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:85 commits, 9 PRs, 18 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Teddy primarily contributes to the OpenBMC project by modifying build configurations and adding/updating recipes. They added a verified-boot recipe and kernel_fit class, enabling verified boot functionality for the AST2400. The user also extended image features to include ROM boot options and made several modifications to support dual SPI flash configurations. Additionally, the user updated the fw-util to update ROM and BMC flash and added boot utilities like `vboot-info`.
linuxopenbmc
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